So much the more a great deal they published it (αυτο μαλλον περισσοτερον εκηρυσσον). Imperfect tense, continued action. Double co…

Tell no man. Do not spread the news. He was not ambitious to be known; and he knew that if much was said about his healings, it would arou…

Theophylact of Ohrid: The Lord did not wish to stay in the regions of the Gentiles, so that He would not give the Jews an o…

Jesus again ordered the crowd not to divulge the miracle, but his command had no effect. The more he insisted on their not talking about it, the mo…

Then he enjoined them not to tell it to any person. Many commentators distort these injunctions to an opposite meaning, as if Chr…

And he charged them
The man that had his hearing and speech restored to him, and those that brought him, and as many…

This passage describes the cure of a man who was deaf and mute. Those who brought this poor man to Christ implored Him to consider his condition an…